HEARTHISTORY & THE FINE ART

OF TIME TRAVEL

I ART

My historical research is a personal renaissance of time-slipping into the past and materializing –truly being there, here, and everywhere via the art of 360 degrees of travel, and twenty-twenty vision. Visualization in three-dimensions (and often a fourth) is an author’s prerogative and a legitimate form of creative reincarnation. The quantum time machine of imagination requires nothing but an armchair, a clock with no hands, a pen, and a sheet of paper. And a cup of tea is nice.

BEING THERE ON TIME

There is simply

no tidy way to time travel

and tell the tale in order.

Time is a spinning singularity –

A whorl of light

A vortex of emotional particles

the universe breathing out of control,

and we are but visitor shadows

– flying

Sentient-driven dreamers

working the updrafts

wind-taken, buffeted

– toe dipping

into once upon a time.

Now and then freefalling

awake

Spiraling through fragments of what was

– caught on the spires of an ancient temple

Suspended above the fumes of rebirth.

As curious passers by,

floating –

grasping at the random perfumes

of the past.

– Veronica Knox

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About Veronica Knox

Veronica Knox has a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Alberta, where she studied Art History, Classical Studies, and Painting. In her career as a graphic designer, illustrator, private art teacher, and ‘fine artist,’ she has also worked with the brain-injured and autistic, developing new theories of hand-to-eye-to-mind connection.
Veronica lives on the west coast of Canada, supporting local animal rescue shelters, painting, writing, editing other author’s novels, and championing the conservation of tigers and elephants, and their habitats.
Her artwork and visuals to support ‘Second Lisa’ may be viewed on her website - www.veronicaknox.com

4 Responses to BEING ON TIME

And now the best writer I know (my favourite descriptive phrase of Veronica Knox) has now extended out to poetry. I’m not a fan of poetry: I don’t have a poetic mind, and don’t appreciate the twine and density of poetry. Nevertheless, this is lovely. This is above lovely.